BAY AREA ARTISTS IN CONVERSATION WITH MERCE AT 100A work in progress. Please email suggested changes and additions to hopemohr@gmail.com.

CUNNINGHAM RESOURCESCourtesy of Rashaun Mitchell, Representative of the Merce Cunningham TrustLead artist for Bay Area Artists In Conversation with Merce at 100

"I have the idea that dancing doesn’t need something else to support itself, that it is what it is by itself. It doesn’t have to have a description to inform you ahead of time what it is, but rather that you can come to this experience for what it is as you might come to something that you have never seen before in the street.”-Merce Cunningham

"My work allows for an ambiguity in terms of meaning. I think I prefer that. Dancing is never so uninteresting to me as when every inch is snared along the way. And given the separateness of the dance and the music…, and where possible…the visual element, this allows for further ambiguity. One of the things this openness does allow is for the spectator to creep in, or out, and make up his own mind." -Merce Cunningham

Chance Conversations: An Interview with Merce Cunningham and John Cage.“A VERY interesting 30-minute video interview form 1981, with Cunningham & Cage talking about their work together. It covers a lot of the same territory as the “Four Events That Have Led to Large Discoveries” essay — especially separation of music and dance, and use of chance operations. Great stuff, in their own words.”- RM

The Six Sides of Merce Cunningham“This is a 6.5 minute video introduction to MC, produced by the Walker Art Center. This is very basic, but may be useful to people who are less familiar with Merce’s work.” -RM

COMMISSIONED BAY AREA ARTISTSLinks coming soon that illuminate the practice of each commissioned artist involved in “Bay Area Artists in Conversation with Merce at 100.”

LINEAGE, TRANSMISSION AND ARCHIVELimited Edition https://openspace.sfmoma.org/series/limited_edition/The theme of Limited Edition, “Forward-Looking Lineages,” was inspired in part by the SFMOMA show Robert Rauschenberg: Erasing the Rules. An Open Space partnership with CounterPulse, The Lab, ODC Theater, Performance at SFMOMA, and Z Space, Limited Edition explored questions of legacy and lineage through performances, discussions, and gatherings at various locations throughout the city from January to March 2018, with commissioned texts (by Gerald Casel, Xandra Ibarra, James Fleming, Ryan Tacata, Meiyin Wang, et al).